Former F1 driver Martin Brundle has highlighted a \u201cmistake\u201d made by Red Bull ahead of Christian Horner’s shock exit.<\/p>\n
Horner was removed from his team principal role in the days following the British Grand Prix, bringing the curtain down on his 20-year stint running the squad.<\/p>\n
Red Bull has endured a difficult run of form of late compared to its title-winning years from 2021 to 2024.<\/p>\n
It has often been forced to rely on Max Verstappen to score points, as a number of drivers in the second seat have struggled to get up to speed.<\/p>\n
With the car known to suit the style of Verstappen, Brundle stated the team let the situation get too far.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the crux of it, I think the mistake they\u2019ve all made at Red Bull is allowing it to become a one-driver team,\u201d\u00a0Brundle told Sky F1<\/p>\n
\u201cThe tail\u2019s wagged the dog there for quite a long time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve had some what appears to be dreadful driver decisions that had some common sense upfront, when they put a driver in who was going well somewhere else.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of that has played out and then Christian wanting to keep hold of the overall control of the direction in every aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Horner became a household name in recent years – as well as his success with Red Bull, he was known for his tongue-in-cheek clashes with rival team bosses.<\/p>\n
Brundle highlighted F1 has lost a key character from the grid, but has backed Horner to reappear in another role going forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t agree with everything Christian said and done, nor him me,\u201d\u00a0Brundle said. \u201cWe have completely opposite jobs in this paddock.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve given him quite a hard time from time to time on a Friday in this show.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019ve lost a pantomime villain. I think that’s really bad news for F1, because the other villains, like Zak and Toto have nobody to have a go at now.<\/p>\n
\u201cChristian\u2019s a friend of mine, and I don’t do fair-weather friendships.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel sorry for him, I feel bad for him, but I think he will re-emerge somewhere else in a part ownership role or ownership role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Martin Brundle has highlighted a \u201cmistake\u201d made by Red Bull ahead of Christian Horner’s shock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-28761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}